Improvement in rope-reels



A. G. MASON. Rope-Reel.

No. 216,485. Patented June10,1879

NVPEYERS, PHOiG-UTHOGRAPHgR. WASHINEETON. D. C.

UNITED STATES PATENT OEFIoE.

ALVIN G. MASON, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TO BENJAMIN F. FELIX, OFSAME PLACE.

IM PROVEM ENT IN ROPE-REELS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 216,485, dated June 10,1879; application filed February 17, 1879.

rope-reel embodying myinvention. Fig.2 represents an inside view of oneof the flanges or heads of a spool, and Fig. 3 represents a modificationof the screw-threaded axle of the spool. Like letters of referenceindicate like parts. The object of my invention is to provide arope-reel for use in retail stores, upon which may be arranged spools ofdifierent sizes for containing diiferent sizes of rope,and so that therope may be unwound as desired from the respective spools; and myinvention consists in the construction and combination of the severalparts of the spool, as hereinafter described and claimed.

In the drawings, A represents the rack, which is held in an inclinedposition by means of a depending brace hinged to the back side of theupper end of the rack, and connected to the lower end of the rack bymeans of a tiebrace, in the usual manner. 7

B B represent the spools, each of which is journaled in suitablebearings b b, attached to the front side of the side rails of, the rack,as shown in Fig. 1, and are so arranged as to allow the spools to bereadily removed therefrom.

The axle or body 0 of the respective spools B is screw-threaded, or mayhe formed with sectional thread, as shown in Fig. 3.

The inner faces of the flanges or heads D D of the spools are madecone-shaped, and provided with a series of circular ribs orcorrugations, d, concentric with axle C, so 'as to fit within the variedsized openings in the ends of coils of rope.

The heads or flanges D D are provided with a screw-threaded openingthrough the centers thereof, corresponding with the thread of the axle,and are adj ustably arranged upon the body or axle of the spool, so thatthey may be moved to or from each other, and so as to fit against theends of a coil of rope arranged upon the spool, and hold, the ropefirmly in posi screw-threaded axle O, of the adjustable heads D,provided with arms 0, and having conical inner faces provided withcircular ribs or corrugations d, substantially as and for the purposespecified.

ALVIN G. MASON.

Witnesses e. R. HOFFMAN, N. OowLEs.

